The economics profession certainly studies and talks about it and quantifies it. Here's some articles https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergene

The economics profession certainly studies and talks about it and quantifies it. Here's some articles https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerational-income-mobility-is-better-than-us-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/countries-where-intergenerat... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-of-82-countries/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-... And on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility India unfortunately fairs quite poorly on these metrics